Mother Earth: An American Story

Mother Earth: An American Story
ISBN-10
0226293726
ISBN-13
9780226293721
Series
Mother Earth
Category
History
Pages
212
Language
English
Published
1991-09-24
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Author
Sam D. Gill

Description

Attributed to Tecumseh in the early 1800s, this statement is frequently cited to uphold the view, long and widely proclaimed in scholarly and popular literature, that Mother Earth is an ancient and central Native American Figure. In this radical and comprehensive rethinking, Sam D. Gill traces the evolution of female earth imagery in North America from the sixteenth century to the present and reveals how the evolution of the current Mother Earth figure was influenced by prevailing European-American imagery of Americaand the Indians as well as by the rapidly changing Indian identity.

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